The Alliance for Connected Care led a letter asking Congressional Appropriators to include a $14 million request for the Telehealth Resource Centers (TRC) program at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in FY2025 appropriations.This increase in funding would provide a critical boost to the TRCs, which saw an 800% increase in demand for telehealth [...]
The Alliance for Connected Care sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding ongoing decisions by CMS that will dramatically increase administrative burden for both practitioners offering telehealth services and CMS itself through the requirements for the reporting of multiple addresses for a clinician offering telehealth. CMS currently allows [...]
On behalf of the Alliance for Connected Care and the many patients and clinicians we represent, we write to support the Committee’s leadership in working to avert a pending telehealth cliff for Medicare beneficiaries and support bipartisan passage of the Telehealth Modernization Act of 2024 (H.R.7623). The Alliance for Connected Care sent a letter to [...]
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Declines in Telemedicine Use Among Adults This report examines changes in telemedicine use among U.S. adults between 2021 and 2022 by selected sociodemographic and geographic characteristics. Overall, the percentage of adults who used telemedicine in the past 12 months decreased from 37.0% in 2021 to 30.1% in [...]
Last week, we finally saw a proposed rule – “Telemedicine Prescribing of Controlled Substances When the Practitioner and the Patient Have not had a Prior In-Person Medical Evaluation” arrive at OMB. We expect that this proposed rule will avert the current end of telehealth prescribing flexibility on December 31, 2024. However, there remains significant risk [...]
FAIR Health: Nationally and in Every Region, Mental Health Conditions Remained the Top Telehealth Diagnostic Category According to FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker, medical claim lines associated with telehealth fell from 4.79 percent in February to 4.73 percent in March, a decrease of 1.3 percent. Nationally and in every region, mental health conditions [...]
Nature: Effectiveness of Telehealth Versus In-Person Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic A review of clinical evidence shows that telehealth is comparable to in-person care across various outcomes and clinical areas. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health observed that the differences between telehealth and in-person [...]
American Epilepsy Society: Seizing the Digital Divide: How Telemedicine Connects the Dots in Epilepsy Care Equity Access to epilepsy specialist care is not uniform in the USA, with prominent gaps in rural areas. Understanding the reasons for nonattendance at epilepsy appointments may help identify access hurdles faced by patients. This study found that telemedicine is [...]
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies: Telehealth and In-Person Diagnosis of Musculoskeletal Conditions This study assessed the concurrent validity and inter-rater agreement of the diagnosis of musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions using synchronous telehealth compared to standard in-person clinical diagnosis. In cases when access to in-person care is constrained, the study implies that telehealth might be a feasible [...]
Journal of General Internal Medicine: Impact of a Remote Primary Care Telehealth Staffing Model on Primary Care Access in the Veterans Health Administration The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) implemented the Clinical Resource Hub (CRH) program to fill staffing gaps in primary care (PC) clinics via telemedicine and maintain veterans’ health care access. This study [...]